Abstract: The training and testing system runs concurrently with the target software application program. The testing and training program sets up a test scenario inside the software application program and asks the user to perform a series of application functions while monitoring the user's responses. The user can select a Show-Me button to which the training and testing program responds by displaying a series of instructional messages and cursor movement and keystroke commands. These cursor movement and keystroke commands are throttled to a speed simulating the speed at which a user would execute them, so that the trainee sees the actual software application program perform the operation as if he or she had performed it.